Ginger-Pickles

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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
This author, discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=spakhm.com There are now only two articles presently live on his site; all past ones are 404.
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
For great justice, does anyone know of any applications (other than Maple) that support WYSIWYG typeset input (not output) like Maple does? As far as I know, Wolfram/Mathematica, LaTex, SymPy, Jupyter, Sage etc all rely on typewriter
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
Commodity logic ICs ubiquitous and totally capable if needs are well-matched; it’s perhaps a deliberate prototype engineering/development choice.
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
From the paper: > Synchronous voltage pulses are sent to both the electrode of the strip connecting to the gate and drain electrodes of the MOSFET. The drain pulse is applied for around 1.1 ms at a constant voltage. The gate pulse starts
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
First standout thing I noticed is the “patern generator” array of DIPs - admittedly without having dived into the paper, any answers from the hive mind what they’re doing?
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/qTMty
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/1WqY0
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/3AQSB
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/0UMsa
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Ship the Airplane: Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover (2020)(nakedcapitalism.com)
9 points by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago|2 comments
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
> Boeing deliberately did not want to use both AOA sensors because, as I said at the beginning, “a man with one AOA sensor knows what the angle of attack is, a man with two AOA sensors is never sure.”e. if Boeing used two sensors then it
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
> It is well-known that Boeing's engineering staff is greying. Many of the engineers are within 10-15 years of retirement age - and most of those are counting the years, months, days, hours and minutes until that magical time. Trust
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Boeing Going Through an Internal Crisis (2003)(airliners.net)
3 points by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago|1 comments
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
Once upon a time I eagerly showed a promising newbie the top page, and they said exactly the same thing. Felt bad. > As we all know, the most secure computer is one not connected to the internet. That’s why I recommend Telstra ADSL.
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ZN4MP
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
See this article about the history: https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/the-braun-lectron-sy... Submitted ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812175
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/PpunE
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/W71a5
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
That’s astonishing. It makes me sad when computers represent things with lossy abstractions, like “album art is a square image,” and those abstractions end up widely supplanting the essential idea of what the thing is.
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2B4Z1
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/oE6m7
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.li/7Ux6E
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
Detailed article on this and other criticality incidents: https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federa...
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by Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
https://archive.ph/fEoP7
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6q3Wl
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
https://archive.ph/58TgA
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
Heard about this at SpaceX too
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
https://archive.ph/zuJW7
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
Nobody chose to visit content farms. They were mislead there by highly-ranked Google search results, generating page views and ad revenue for the farms.
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> And that’s the main takeaway I got from reading these three volumes of history. Most of humanity throughout history has suffered from the ambitions of a few. The people of history that have led us have nearly always led us into sufferi

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